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Guy of Avesnes

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on 20 March 1304. In Guy's absence, the Fresingen seized power in Utrecht with the support of the guilds, whose privileges they fixed in the "Gildenbrief" of 9 May 1304. On 14 September 1305, the guilds' regime had to capitulate to bishop Guy (who had been released), but from then on the city
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in 1302, the following year. He brought about a reconciliation between the Lichtenbergers and the Fresingen. However, in 1304 he weakened his brother John's position by leading an offensive of Flemish troops which then occupied Holland and
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retained a high degree of autonomy. However, it took until 1309 before the king fully recognised the bishop as Utrecht's secular lord.
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in 1306. After his death these lordships definitively devolved to the count of Holland. He was buried in
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It was John II who ensured Guy's appointment as bishop of Utrecht in 1301, instead of
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and his tomb, damaged during the iconoclasm in the 16th century, still survives.
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Damaged face on the tomb of Guy van Avesnes in Utrecht cathedral
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14th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
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Noble family
John I of Avesnes
Adelaide of Holland

Utrecht
Bishop of Utrecht
Hainaut
House of Avesnes
John II
Count of Hainaut
Count of Holland
John I of Avesnes
Adelaide of Holland
Adolf II van Waldeck
archbishop of Cologne
the Sticht
Battle of Duiveland
Council of Vienne
Aemstel
Woerden
town privileges
Amsterdam
Utrecht Cathedral
Otto van Asperen van Heuckelom
Arnold, Lord of IJsselstein
Willem II Berthout
Bishop of Utrecht
Frederik II van Sierck
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